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Minn. health system purges drug trinkets - Yahoo! News

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Minn. health system purges drug trinkets - Yahoo! News
“I’ve never seen nor heard of a systematic roundup of pens and coffee mugs before,” Johnson said. “It’s a bit draconian. But the onus is on us now to do a better job of explaining the job and the importance of marketing representatives. Unfortunately there are [...]

Selling links that pass PageRank

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Selling links that pass PageRank
I’ve talked quite a lot before about buying or selling links that pass PageRank. Today I wanted to walk through a concrete example of paid posts and show why the major search engines don’t want to be affected by links within paid posts. The problem is best illustrated by a [...]

MOMS I.N.C. “Improving Nutrition For Children”

Friday, September 28th, 2007

MOMS I.N.C. “Improving Nutrition For Children”
My wife and some other mom’s have gotten together and created a group called Moms I.N.C. (Moms Improving Nutrition for Children) to try to address the obesity and behavioral problems rampant in children these days by working to improve the quality of school lunches and to help educate people on [...]

Insurance and Doctors, a data point

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Had to take my son to urgent care today for a minor dog bite (he is fine) but had an interesting experience when it came to filling out the paperwork for insurance. The urgent care facility said that we could have 50% off of the bill if we paid now by credit card or [...]

Making Cary, NC a Greener Place

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Living in Cary, North Carolina is a good thing by most accounts, consistently
ranking very high in livability, even while withstanding the ire of
others in the Triangle for being too “beige”.  Whatever that means.
As if the rest of the triangle is all that interesting when compared
to the likes of NYC or San Francisco.  At any rate, [...]

ABC News: New Pill Means Full Stop for Periods

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

ABC News: New Pill Means Full Stop for Periods
OK, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that within the next 10 years this “miracle” pill gets pulled because it is shown to fuel breast (and other) cancer just like the exact same drugs do in women who take them after menopause.
I’m not [...]